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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Altalazar" data-source="post: 1465313" data-attributes="member: 939">If you are going to talk leather and spikes, that brings in the whole question of just what sort of art adorns our PHB and DMG... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />   Almost derails this into what would be considered purely "gamer porn" - centerfolds of dwarves and elves in the PHB?  "Hey, Bob, did you get this week's "Play Dragon?"  Did you see the centerfold?  Check out the stat-block on THAT magical sword!  (Literally - as in new magic items and spells and their stat blocks...)  That is what gets us gamers excited.  Well, and the occasional ecology article.This leads to the more general (on thread) question of what, if any, other literature might a monster have?  I mean, will there be Orc epic poetry as well as Play-orc?  Will there only be enough literature in orcish for orcs to hide their orc pron inside of when they don't want anyone to know they are looking at it?  In reality, that industry is a multi-billion dollar industry - it is a significant portion of all internet traffic.  I wonder if the ratio of that to "higher" literature would be similar with monsters.  And probably the implements they use would be mostly unrecognizable to PCs.  Especially for the more alien monsters and the aberrations.  You may go to a lot of trouble to come up with all of this stuff, but then when you describe it to the PCs, it will just sound like random junk that they'll probably mostly ignore anyway.</blockquote>

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